Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Despite the fact, or because, the festive season is still in full swing Nanny can't help but lecture us about our lifestyles. Included on the list of things that she is targeting during the festive season are:

It should be noted though that our lords and masters all do rather well in the Palarse of Westminster at our expense, in subsidised bars and restaurants (wherein I believe they are allowed to smoke - in certain parts). During Christmas they are of course stuffing their fat faces in their country piles!

Monday, December 29, 2014

A survey carried out by ComRes has found that more than 80 per cent of those questioned, excluding ‘don’t knows’,
believe it should be down to individuals to make their own lifestyle
choices without official interference from Government; ie they loath Nanny..

The survey also noted significant opposition to stealth “sin taxes” on products such as tobacco, alcohol or sugary drinks.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

My commiserations to the good people of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, who have been sent an edict by Nanny's equality and diversity team about how to hold their Christmas parties.

In brief the edict says:

1Choose a time that is friendly to mothers, lest someone sues for discrimination (what sort of people sue because they can't attend a party?)

2 Avoid pubs. For why? Lest there be age discrimination (for the wee kiddies under 18 who work in our hospitals).

3 Cater (foodwise) for all religions and "disabled staff".

4 Make sure the date doesn't clash with other religious festivals (why?, isn't Christmas meant to be a "Christian" thing?)

5 Carry out a risk assessment (pass the sick bag someone!)

6 Don't skive off the next day with a hangover (in other words, come to work and perform an operation whilst drunk!). Good advice!!

The edict also lists contact details for three companies
providing interpreting services, as well as an out-of-hours contact for an
organisation specialising in sign language and lip-reading for the deaf.

What a truly ghastly way to organise a party, I certainly wouldn't want to go to one of these!

Monday, December 15, 2014

Nanny is suffering these days, because we are not earning enough to pay for her ever increasing cash needs. Thus, as taxes are not doing the job, she has found another way to milk us dry.

Parking charges and fines!

The Telegraph reports that results of an RAC survey found in 2013/14, Nanny's councils in England made a combined "profit" of £667
million from their on and off-street parking operations. This was 12% more than the 2012/13 figure of £594 million, with 44% of the
2013/14 total being generated by councils in London, the foundation said.

The figures were calculated by adding up income from parking charges and
penalty notices, then deducting running costs.

The five biggest "earners" were all London authorities. However, the Green "paradise" of Brighton and Hove stormed in at number 6 earning £18M.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

My commiserations to the good people of Australia who have to endure Nannyism every bit as annoying as our Nannyism.

Now that we are approaching the season of goodwill etc, it should come as no surprise to learn that Australian Nanny wants to ban the traditional activity of kids sitting on the lap of an overweight, red faced stranger.

Step forward child protection activist (what is a child protection activist, is this an official role or something that she has made up?) Hetty Johnston who is quoted by The Courier Mail:

“What we would like to see is shopping centre owners updating their child protection policies.

The
directive would be for children to stand beside Santa, unless parents
or children request to sit on his knee. Shopping centres have duty of
care to protect children on premises.”

Given that the knee sitting takes place in front of the kid's parents and assorted elves etc, what exactly does she think Santa is going to do to the kids?

The lesson that the kids will learn is to never trust any adult. That is not a healthy lesson!

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Oh dear I sere that because some people are clueless about how to handle and cook chicken safely, and have given themselves food poisoning, Nanny's chums from the supermarkets are considering freezing or steaming all chickens that they sell.

This of course buggers up the texture, looks and flavour of the chicken.

This hysteria is as a result of a recent report by the
Food Standards Agency (FSA), that noted that 18% of birds in supermarkets contained dangerously high levels of campylobacter.

So what?

Those who handle and cook their birds properly will not be poisoned by this.

Friday, December 05, 2014

I see that Nanny's chums from NHS Devon have decreed that smokers and the morbidly obese in Devon will be denied routine surgery, unless they quit smoking or lose weight. Specifically patients with a BMI of 35 or above will have to shed 5% of
their weight, while smokers will have to quit eight weeks before surgery.

This might be all very well and dandy for those of us who are not obese and who don't smoke. However, here's why it's farking disgraceful:

1 BMI is an arbitrary bollocks indicator of obesity, and should not be used as a criteria for assessing fatness.

2 The NHS, the last time I looked, provides universal health care. These restrictions are fundamentally contrary to the principles of the NHS.

3 Smokers pay tax on the fags they smoke, are they not already therefore providing extra funding for their health issues from their smoking habit?

4 This is but the thin end of the wedge. As we all know Nanny has bees in her bonnet wrt eating, drinking, lifestyle etc. In the event that NHS Devon is allowed to get away with this, Nanny will target those who drink and eat fat/sugar for "lifestyle changes" before allowing them to receive medical help for which they have paid taxes.

Ignore this at your peril, one day Nanny will identify something that you do that she will classify as a "health risk"!

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Kudos to Pembrokeshire council for winning this week's Prats of The Week Award.

For why did they win it?

They were spectacularly prattish in wasting taxpayers' money wrt Bryn Parry-Jones a former council CEO who, apart from being at the centre of a row over cash payments made
in lieu of pension contributions, was also given a luxury £90,000 Porsche as
his work vehicle.

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

I see that Duncan Selbie, one of Nanny's chums from the head of Public Health England, has issued a dire warning that drinking a glass of wine after work does the same harm as drinking three shots
of vodka.

Selbie claims that deaths from liver disease of working age people have
increased by 500% since the 1970s because many arrive home, "pour
a glass and have no idea how much they are drinking".

MPs say that people are safer enjoying an alcoholic drink in their local pub
as measures are controlled rather than buying large quantities of wine at "rock
bottom prices" in supermarkets and drinking in a "non-sociable
atmosphere away from people's communities".

That's a laugh, considering these hypocrites enjoy drinking taxpayers' subsidised booze in Westminster bars where they never have to get off their fat backsides to leave the building (unless they are off to a drug fuelled orgy in Dolphin Square).

Tracey Crouch MP, the former chair of the All Parliamentary Alcohol Misuse Group,
is quoted by the Telegraph:

"The middle class professional is coming
home of an evening and pouring themselves a glass of wine with dinner, and
then possibly another after that, without realising that over the course of
a week it can tot up to more than what is medically advised.

I'm really pleased that Public Health England has raised this, because
raising awareness of this is not about telling people they cannot drink, it
is about getting people to understand the drinking habits they have, and it
does become a habit, it becomes a habitual part of your evening rather than
some sort of special occasion when people enjoy a glass of wine.

People will see it is a very different thing pouring a glass of wine to
pouring a three measure vodka, but this is why it's important to have
calorific content on the labels - you wouldn't pour three shots of vodka but
you also wouldn't sit down and eat six doughnuts either - but you tend to
pour yourself a large measure of wine not a small glass."

MPs sit down all day boozing away in subsidised bars, please explain how that is better than someone who actually works coming home and pouring themselves a drink?

Anyhoo, the solution is easy; drink vodka instead of wine, or dilute your wine with vodka.

The Telegraph notes that the leaflet suggests “finger foods” under three categories: “Bite and
Dissolve”, “Bite and Squash/Suck” and “Easy Chew Food”. Wotsits, Quavers,
Skips and Pom-Bears are among the crisps to feature under “Bite and
Dissolve”, as well as Mini Cheddars and meringue.

The document states that Kit Kats, Crunchies, Milky Bars and Ripple chocolate
bars are also suitable “if a child sucks food well”.

Tracey Nutter (no puns please), director of nursing at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
said that the leaflet was the “first of several documents given to a small
number of parents with babies and toddlers who have significant feeding
problems and are failing to progress onto solid food for a variety of
medical or developmental reasons.....not intended as meal replacements or as a means to put on
weight.”

Call me old fashioned, but the advice sounds bollocks to me. Most certainly it will further confuse those who are subjected to the daily bombardment of Nanny's food/drink/health propaganda.

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